# muteUponStartAudio method for VideoSDK

**URL:** <https://devforum.zoom.us/t/muteuponstartaudio-method-for-videosdk/117301>\
**Category:** Feature Requests\
**Tags:** video-sdk\
**Created:** [September 11, 2024, 3:58pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/muteuponstartaudio-method-for-videosdk/117301 "2024-09-11T15:58:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![sam9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/858c86/32.png) [@sam9](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/sam9)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2024, 3:58pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/muteuponstartaudio-method-for-videosdk/117301/1 "2024-09-11T15:58:44Z")

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Per conversation with @vic.yang on topic: [Dial-out phone users joining unmuted issues](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/dial-out-phone-users-joining-unmuted-issues/117156) it looks like there is a feasibility for creating a muteUponStartAudio method for a session-wide automatic muting of users’ audio when they start audio for the first time.

This is extremely useful for phone audio users on a video sdk call in which if they connect to the call without an active websocket connection to the web app ( say if they’ve backgrounded the web app on their iphone ) there is actually no way to mute this phone user. Even with the ability to mute a phone user when they join if they are connected to the websocket its a strange behavior to have to manually intercept and mute.

Let me know if any other information/context is needed but this method would simplify a lot of potential edge cases and non-edge cases in which manual mute intervention is necessary and sometimes not available.